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Today an immense ignorance of Japanese swords prevails outside Japan. There is one great private collection of them in the U.S., gathered over 40 years by Dr. Walter Compton of Elkhart, Ind. Last week 46 of his classical blades-the tachi or long cavalry sword, the shorter katana and the dirks known as tantos and wakizashis-went on view at Manhattan's Japan Society. The show is a scholarly event of the first importance, and its catalogue-mainly written by Japan's leading student of blades, 29-year-old Ogawa Morihiro-becomes at one stroke the standard text...
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Some other cities are learning to cope with unemployment at or close to 10%; among them are San Diego, hit hard by the collapse in construction; and Elkhart, Ind., whose mobile-home manufacturing industry has slowed down sharply. While New York City agonizes over its 7.4% unemployment, Seattle is content with its 6.9% because 15% of its aircraft-centered labor force was out of work in the 1969-70 recession. Chicago and Cleveland, both diversified with several still healthy industries, including steel and heavy machinery, are skating by the slump with less than 5% joblessness-though even in Chicago, unemployment...
...rehired hundreds of machinists who were laid off during the recession of 1970. In La Crosse, Wis., Trane Co. is hiring new workers off the street for the first time in three years. In Indiana's South Bend-Elkhart industrial belt, more than 1,000 new factory jobs are waiting to be filled. Such stories are not unusual anywhere in the U.S.: a booming economy has created 2.7 million new jobs in the past year. But the surge -and the soaring cost of living that attends it-has also drawn 2.1 million new job hunters into the labor force...
...Elkhart, Ind., Elden W. Perm, 42, a onetime car salesman, expects that his company, Perm Associates, will produce half of this year's bumper crop. The tie-in between the path of righteousness and the macadam turnpike comes through most clearly in one of Perm's latest offerings: I'M HEADED FOR THE PROMISED LAND, SEE YOU THERE -J.C. Or as the Old Testament counsels (Jeremiah 31: 21): "Set thee up way-marks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway...